Dear members of the linguist list,
I'm interested in color terms which are used (in a broad sense
metaphorically) for primarily nonvisible properties.
One common phenomenon is color terms for "shades" of political
orientations ('red' for the left, 'black' for conservative etc.).
Apart from those there are sporadic cases such as German 'blau' ("blue")
for "drunken".
Any examples from any language are welcome. I'll compile a summary for
the list eventually.
Thanks for contributions
Sebastian Loebner

Dear linguists,
very briefly, i've been unable to locate what appears to be a very interesting
paper on the scope of negation by Kazumi Sugai in the Nagoya Working Papers
in Linguistics. I've been unable to locate the author and the editor. Can
someone help me get in touch with either Mr.(Mme?) Sugai or the people at
Nagoya?? Thank you so much and sorry for the trouble.
Pierre Larrivee
Departement de langues et linguistique, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada,
G1K 7P4
3914larpvm1.ulaval.ca